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Fri Oct-09-09 04:29 PM
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| Advice please... my daughter has to write a report on a military leader |
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good or bad, for her ROTC class. What would be the most instructive one for her? (I'll just give her a list of the responses and she can pick from them)
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| -Advice please... my daughter has to write a report on a military leader |
FlyingSquirrel |
Oct-09-09 04:29 PM |
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General Martok |
rcrush |
Oct-09-09 04:29 PM |
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rcrush you never fail to make me happy |
EndersDame |
Oct-09-09 09:31 PM |
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Or this guy |
rcrush |
Oct-09-09 10:31 PM |
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What about Kor The Da'Har Master? |
proteus_lives |
Oct-10-09 02:10 AM |
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hahah, win |
WildEyedLiberal |
Oct-11-09 12:44 AM |
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Admiral Ackbar |
jdp349 |
Oct-09-09 04:32 PM |
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+1. |
darkstar3 |
Oct-10-09 06:51 PM |
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Major General Smedly Butler! |
PassingFair |
Oct-09-09 04:33 PM |
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BINGO! My first thought, too! |
trof |
Oct-09-09 04:34 PM |
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Yes! Please....Major General Smedly Butler! |
Dystopian |
Oct-09-09 07:05 PM |
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YES.I agree 100% |
conscious evolution |
Oct-09-09 07:29 PM |
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removed. wrong place |
Kutjara |
Oct-10-09 03:28 PM |
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Admiral Leonard James Akaar |
rcrush |
Oct-09-09 04:33 PM |
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Spartacus would be an interesting one, in |
frogmarch |
Oct-09-09 04:36 PM |
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How about President Obama |
cbdo2007 |
Oct-09-09 04:38 PM |
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RAdm Grace Hopper |
sarge43 |
Oct-09-09 04:50 PM |
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I Second That |
Mrs. Venation |
Oct-10-09 10:38 AM |
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Actually, she wasn't. |
sarge43 |
Oct-10-09 11:09 AM |
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She developed the programming language COBOL, as well as the first compiler... |
SKKY |
Oct-11-09 01:03 AM |
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I'd pick a general from the Civil War or World War II |
XemaSab |
Oct-09-09 04:51 PM |
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Patton, Rommel, Hannibal (the guy with the elephants), Napoleon... |
Danger Mouse |
Oct-09-09 04:52 PM |
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Patton vs Rommel |
liberaltrucker |
Oct-09-09 04:55 PM |
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Rommel gets the press, probably because the US fought him |
cemaphonic |
Oct-09-09 10:07 PM |
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Or Manstein |
Mixopterus |
Oct-10-09 03:59 PM |
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Yeah, I'd probably put him above Rommel too |
cemaphonic |
Oct-10-09 09:46 PM |
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I'll add Joshua Chamberlain, Teddy Roosevelt, & Dwight Eisenhower |
GreenPartyVoter |
Oct-09-09 04:59 PM |
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Sun Tzu |
Rabrrrrrr |
Oct-09-09 05:52 PM |
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Ding, ding, ding, ding! We have a winnah!! |
Moondog |
Oct-09-09 06:02 PM |
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Yep - automatic shitloads of brownie points for using Sun Tzu! |
Rabrrrrrr |
Oct-09-09 06:18 PM |
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Amen. |
Moondog |
Oct-09-09 08:08 PM |
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Thread over. |
flvegan |
Oct-09-09 06:39 PM |
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Benjamin Butler |
City of Mills |
Oct-09-09 06:00 PM |
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John Paul Vann from Neil Sheehan's A Bright Shining Lie |
taterguy |
Oct-09-09 06:07 PM |
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Yeah, Some Of The Gamier Details Would Have To Be Left Out. |
Paladin |
Oct-10-09 01:30 PM |
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Charles Martel |
Mixopterus |
Oct-09-09 06:08 PM |
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Zapp Brannigan |
pokerfan |
Oct-09-09 06:20 PM |
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If we hit that bull's eye, the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... |
Xipe Totec |
Oct-10-09 07:35 PM |
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General U.S. Grant |
wain |
Oct-09-09 06:28 PM |
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I second this recommendation. |
NNadir |
Oct-09-09 08:39 PM |
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Col Claus von Stauffenberg |
nytemare |
Oct-09-09 06:53 PM |
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Genghis Khan |
Inchworm |
Oct-09-09 06:55 PM |
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+1 n/t |
Xipe Totec |
Oct-10-09 07:34 PM |
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Gen Omar Bradley would be a good one. Also Canadian Gen Sir Arthur Currie who planned the Vimy Ridge |
Monk06 |
Oct-09-09 07:03 PM |
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George C. Marshall. In the '30s he helped run the CCC. A real progressive. |
Captain Hilts |
Oct-09-09 07:08 PM |
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Capt. James T Kirk |
Vinnie From Indy |
Oct-09-09 07:15 PM |
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What, nobody has mentioned Colin Powell yet? |
Brigid |
Oct-09-09 07:47 PM |
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Colin Powell!! |
RoadRage |
Oct-09-09 08:08 PM |
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That would be my choice |
NJmaverick |
Oct-10-09 03:56 PM |
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He is unusual, but counts..Sitting Bull |
Stuart G |
Oct-09-09 08:21 PM |
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Or Chief Joseph |
cemaphonic |
Oct-09-09 08:45 PM |
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General Motors or Colonel Sanders. |
edbermac |
Oct-09-09 08:22 PM |
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I strongly recommend Smedley Butler |
JonLP24 |
Oct-09-09 09:17 PM |
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David Petraeus |
spindrifter |
Oct-09-09 10:21 PM |
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Saladin. |
Aristus |
Oct-09-09 10:26 PM |
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yes, good call |
cemaphonic |
Oct-09-09 11:29 PM |
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Not really |
Mixopterus |
Oct-10-09 03:59 PM |
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I'd so like to read that report, and see the teacher's reaction. |
madeline_con |
Oct-10-09 10:11 PM |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower |
rabs |
Oct-09-09 11:02 PM |
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A plug for James Earl Rudder. |
GOPisEvil |
Oct-09-09 11:11 PM |
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Lt. General William Slim |
BlueCollar |
Oct-09-09 11:21 PM |
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another vote for Smedley Butler. |
abq e streeter |
Oct-09-09 11:26 PM |
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or...Major Lance, and General Johnson |
abq e streeter |
Oct-09-09 11:29 PM |
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Marcus Aurelius |
Tuesday Afternoon |
Oct-09-09 11:33 PM |
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Khaled bin al-waleed, seriously. |
TxRider |
Oct-09-09 11:47 PM |
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Napoleon is an oldie but a goodie. |
proteus_lives |
Oct-10-09 02:13 AM |
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MacArthur |
MilesColtrane |
Oct-10-09 02:24 AM |
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Cincinnatus, or, for something completely different... |
TreasonousBastard |
Oct-10-09 03:38 AM |
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Emiliano Zapata.... |
fNord |
Oct-10-09 03:44 AM |
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The Prophet Mohamed |
Taitertots |
Oct-10-09 12:27 PM |
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Wes Clark |
elleng |
Oct-10-09 12:53 PM |
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Chesty Puller, USMC. former Commandant of the Marine Corps, who |
old mark |
Oct-10-09 01:09 PM |
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Good or bad? |
jmowreader |
Oct-10-09 01:47 PM |
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why not marx, or hitler they are easy to find stuff on |
jacko_be |
Oct-10-09 02:36 PM |
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Because neither one was a military leader. Karl Marx was a political philosopher for |
Aristus |
Oct-10-09 03:37 PM |
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wel my dear, i'm just 2 days on this site |
jacko_be |
Oct-10-09 03:58 PM |
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I owe you an apology then. If you're here for long enough, you'll understand why we at DU |
Aristus |
Oct-10-09 06:18 PM |
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I am a progressive liberal |
jacko_be |
Oct-10-09 06:27 PM |
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Kitiara Uth Mater, Dragon Highlord... |
Hayabusa |
Oct-10-09 03:09 PM |
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Tamerlane |
AngryAmish |
Oct-10-09 03:24 PM |
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Boudicca, the Celtic warrior queen. |
Kutjara |
Oct-10-09 03:29 PM |
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You could also do Hovhannes Bagramyan |
Mixopterus |
Oct-10-09 04:05 PM |
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Clausewitz |
Mixopterus |
Oct-10-09 04:12 PM |
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How has no one mentioned Agrippa? |
darkstar3 |
Oct-10-09 06:56 PM |
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What about Hannibal? Or Alexander the Great? |
Common Sense Party |
Oct-11-09 12:32 AM |
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Admiral Spruance (WW2, Pacific) might be interesting |
krispos42 |
Oct-10-09 07:04 PM |
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I like General Eric Shinseki. |
tekisui |
Oct-10-09 07:37 PM |
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Boudicca n/t |
Scout |
Oct-10-09 09:31 PM |
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I would choose Pol Pot. |
Quantess |
Oct-10-09 10:12 PM |
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Oliver North? She can get credit & annoy her parents simultaneously! :) n/t |
qnr |
Oct-10-09 11:26 PM |
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Hey |
Parche |
Oct-11-09 12:14 AM |
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Ender |
Common Sense Party |
Oct-11-09 12:27 AM |
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Grace Hopper would probably be the most interesting... |
SKKY |
Oct-11-09 12:58 AM |
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Here's a few of my favs |
jrandom421 |
Oct-11-09 02:12 AM |
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I'd go with Lieutenant Kijé, myself... |
regnaD kciN |
Oct-11-09 03:52 AM |
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Geronimo |
Mendocino |
Oct-11-09 05:17 AM |
#95 |
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